Shares plummet as coronavirus hits stock market
Copenhagen Stock Exchange’s trend-setting C25 index of blue-chip shares fell to a 4-year low, Monday, losing 3.59% as the number of coronavirus cases surged in Italy and South Korea, putting two more major…
MorePM returns from EU budget meeting empty-handed
Denmark and its partners in the ‘gang of four’ – Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden – refused to back down, Friday, on their demand for an EU budget cap as the 27 EU…
MoreSocial Democrats urge members to find dirt on Liberals
A leaked internal Social Democrat e-mail could prove to be highly embarrassing for the prime minister. The mail, sent from the party’s policy and press department but seen by Jyllands Posten, urges members,…
MoreGovernment’s allies issue climate warning
The Red/Greens have threatened to topple Climate Minister Dan Jørgensen unless he kick-starts negotiations for a climate action plan. Titular head of the far-left party, Pernille Skipper, warned that if the climate minister…
MoreMinistry shuts down anti-Iran TV station
The Danish Radio and Television Board, part of the Culture Ministry, has shut down a satellite TV station run by anti -Teheran exiled Iranians. In its ruling, the Board said the station’s programming…
MoreConservatives: No citizenship for criminals
Foreign nationals with a criminal record should be denied Danish citizenship according to the Conservatives. Under current legislation applicants with a suspended prison sentence but party leader, former justice minister Søren Pape Poulsen,…
MoreUN report: Danish kids are ‘flourishing’
Danish children are ‘flourishing’ but CO2 is a major issue, an extensive new report from the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) finds. In the final rankings, which included…
MorePolish praise for ‘special relationship’
During a visit to Copenhagen, Friday, Poland’s foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz praised Denmark as ‘Poland’s special partner.’ Security issues were high on the agenda and the minister thanked his Danish counterpart, Jespe Kofod,…
MoreNews in brief
Latvian woman avoids South Africa deportation….Denmark gives $1.2m to WHO fight against coronavirus….Foreign royals line up to celebrate Queen’s 80th… A 46-year-old Latvian woman who’s spent the past 14 months in a Danish…
MoreThe Week That Was, February 17th – 26th 2020:
Politics/Economy: Danish politicians and IT experts reacted angrily to reports that the Danish Military, and Defence Ministry, have since the 1990s spent millions on encryption devices from the Swiss company Crypto AG, owned…
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